New Hash Function Family - ARIRANG
ARIRANG is our proposal for SHA-3. We propose a dedicated ARIRANG hash algorithm family, which includes 224, 256, 384 and 512-bit variants to allow substitution for the SHA-2 family. The four members of the ARIRANG family are called ARIRANG-224, ARIRANG-256, ARIRANG-384 and ARIRANG-512 by their hashed bit sizes. The ARIRANG family process messages in the usual left-to-right order like Merkle-Damgard strengthening and are suitable for any cryptographic applications such as digital signatures, HMAC, pair-wise key establishment schemes, deterministic random bit generators, randomized hashing, etc.
Authors
Donghoon Chang, Seokhie Hong, Changheon Kang, Jinkeon Kang, Jongsung Kim, Changhoon Lee, Jesang Lee, Jongtae Lee, Sangjin Lee, Yuseop Lee, Jongin Lim, Jaechul Sung
ARIRANG is ...
"ARIRANG" is arguably the most popular and best-known Korean folk song, both inside and outside Korea. ARIRANG is an ancient native Korean word with no direct modern meaning. 'Ari' means "beautiful", "lovely" and "charming". 'Rang' can mean "dear". Because of those words, arirang could be interpreted to mean "beautiful dear"; however, this modern interpretation is unlikely to match the original (ancient) meaning.
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